RCMP used cadets for Hill security for two years after 2014 shooting

Cadets were used to meet 'unexpected operational demands' following the Oct. 22, 2014 shooting on Parliament Hill, says an RCMP spokesperson. The Parliamentary Protective Service is forming a ‘special response’ team that will eventually assume some of the duties of regular force RCMP.

The Parliamentary Protective Service has been given more than $60-million to protect Parliament Hill this year.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY TIM NAUMETZ

September 28, 2016

The RCMP has quietly withdrawn a deployment of rookie Mountie cadets who had been integrated into ranks of regular RCMP members providing ground and perimeter security on Parliament Hill following a shooter’s attack in the Centre Block in 2014, The Hill Times has learned. As well, the ne...

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